Thursday, February 21, 2002
Tonight we can party, though, at the moment, I'm having considerable difficulty just getting both my eyes to point in the same direction.
This morning I decided that would finish Chapter 3 today and put myself a day or two ahead of schedule. Not that novels should be written on schedules, but there you are. So, I wrote from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with about an hour's worth of short breaks for coffee. About 4 p.m., I was running out of steam, getting the sort of foggy head that usually forces me to stop for the day. Instead, I had another cup of CDM with one of those little Snap Back powders mixed in for an extra 200 mg. jolt of caffeinated joy. That bought me another two hours. But, sadly, I still didn't manage to finish the chapter, but I did write a remarkable (for me) 2,000+ wds. (roughly 8 pp.) and almost finished the chapter. I haven't written that much in a single day in years and years, probably not since I was working on The Five of Cups way back in '92. Anyway, it'll be done tomorrow.
At that point, it goes back to my agent, along with a brief synopsis of the novel, and then to my editor. And I get to take a very short break.
Stay tuned . . .
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